Process for producing colored films for animated pictures.



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GUSTAVE. HOGLUND, OF vCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COLORED FILMS FOR AN'IMATED PICTURES.

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Specication of ietters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4L, 19t@ application ined August 1o, ieee. seriarivo. 512,240.

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, GUs'rAv E. HOGLUND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Ilhnoi's, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Processes for Producing Colored Films for Animated Pictures, of which the following is a specification.

In producing colored films of this character, the method commonly ein loyed is to either tint the picture by han or through a long process of color photography. In

'view of the fact that color photography is to produce the same results to the eyel when the ,pictures are thrown on the screen 4as results from completelycolored pictures,

' Without coloring every part of each picture,

but only a certain portlon of each picture, dividing the films into a number of consecutive series, a portionof eachpicture of the series being colored and the same color scheme running through corresponding pictures in the different series.

In the drawings, Figure l is a face View of a film completely colored; Fig. 2 a View of the stencil employed in coloring the film andv Fig. 3, a face view of a tinted film with the coloring ap lied thereto.

As shown in the rawings, the film 3 is divided into series of three pictures, as indicated by the numerals 3, 4 and 5, each of the pictures of the series having a portion of its surface colored.

As indiated'l in picture 3, a portion 6 is colored green; in picture 4 a portion 7 is colored blue; and 1n picture 5 a portion 8 is colored red. This same order of coloring is followed throughout the entire set of pictures. We will assume, for the purposes of illustration, that in this particularpicture there is a red house, a blue sky,- and green trees. 0n eyery third picture the green .-trees will becolored, anden the other two the trees" will-'appear inthe ordinary black of the film, the sameV statement applying to the blue sky and red house. When the pictures are projectedrapidlyuupon the screen,

the colors will blend, producing, by the same optical delusion which is manifest in moving pictures, the edect to the eye of a completel colored picture. I have also discovered iat, by tinting the film, certain colors will become opaque thereon, causing them i to stand out prominently, so that when the background of the film is tinted it becomes necessary to color only two of the three pictures in the series, the third icture receiving its coloring through the tint in the film.

Referring to Fig. 2, there is shown a stencil for use in preparing the colored film. This is produced by taking a positive film from the negative in the manner ordinarilyv employed;L From this positive film certain portions of each picture are cut out. stencil is then superimposed upon the film to be colored and coloring matter applied to the portions of the film which are exposed. In case a tinted film is used, portions are cut out from only two of the three pictures in the series, some portion of every third picture being rendered Vdark by the tintand standing out from the rest of' the film. The above process is described for the purpose of showing one Way in which this result can be accomplished. There are, however, numerous old and well known methods by which this coloring can be done.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings is shown a film in which a green tint is used as a background for the entire picture. Therefore,

theportions of the'landscape which are green will be of pronounced coloring upon the film; that is, they will stand out more prominently than the rest of the picture in which other colors are employed. The film of Fig. 3 shows a portion 9, which is produced from an object having a green coloring, a 'portion lOfrom an object having a blue coloring, and a portion l1 from an object having a redl coloring. The green color scheme will, of course, be manifest throughout the picture, but by coloring a certain The" portion blue in every other picture, and a f -certain portion red in every other picture, making a consecutive serles of pictures, the

first of which would be in blue and green, the second in red and green, and so ondown the lm one is enabled to produce a completed picture having the red, blue and green colors thereon.

claim: l. The process of coloring animated picture films, which consists of dividing a lm into series containing a selected number of pictures, cutting out a selected image from each picture, each corresponding picture of the series of pictures having a like image cut out therefrom, superimposing the stencil thus formed over a duplicate ilm of that Jfrom which the stencil Was made, said latter film having a tinted background, and applying selected coloring matter to each exposed part of the film lgyin below y the stencil, thereby producing a n having a general color for a background, each picture having au image thereon of a color distinct from the background, the colors blending when the pictures are projected to produce a completely colored picture, substantially as described.

stencil was made, and applying selected coloring matter to each exposed part of the film lying beneath the stencil, thus producing a series of pictures, each containing a selected number of pictures, each corresponding picture of the series of pictures having the corresponding image therein of the same color, the colored images of the different pictures blending when the pictures are projected to produce a completely colored picture, substantially as described. GUSTADE. HOGLUND.

Witnesses:

WM. P. BOND, FRANCES M. FROST. 

